UPDATED — Rachel Maddow springs to the defense of ACORN

Rachel Maddow is joined by Occidental College politics professor Peter Dreier, who authored a study on how myths about ACORN were manufactured and how easily the mainstream media–not just the right wing media –was led into reporting falsehoods.

(I can’t get the video to embed properly here — it’s at Maddow’s blog at the link above, if you want to see it.)

Ah yes, The infamous Vast Rightwing Conspiracy. Funny I never heard of RottenAcorn before, I have heard of the Acorn8. I don’t know what media “Professor” Dreier looked at but every AP and Reuters release gets a statement from ACORN. Dreier’s Bio. I noticed a few things that would raise questions as to his impartiality in anything involving a union or community action group. Please check to see if I did that link right.